Booker delicacy

The Loafer made a kind offer (Review, November 4) to eat John McCririck's hat if Margaret Atwood were to win the Booker prize. May we know the venue for this forthcoming attraction and which particular hat of Mr McCririck will be consumed (Atwood takes Booker prize, November 8)? David RennieCardiff

 I have spotted another alarming imbalance on your letters page. Can it be that Mike Rennie of Dundee who wrote to complain about the preponderance of letters from professors (November 8) is the same as Michael Rennie of Dundee (Letters, October 30) or indeed Professor Michael Rennie of Dundee University, a regular contributor to the page? Sarah Thomas Twickenham, Middx

 It may be comforting for you to think pensioners are all about tea dances and foxtrots, but a man born in 1935, drawing his pension from today, was 20 when Rock Around the Clock came out (Pre-budget report, November 9). A woman of 60 picking up her first pension book was 22 when the Beatles began their career. It's the pop-pickers who are pensioners now. Anna HodsonWisbech, Cambs

 Not one of the Kinkster's (Letters, November 6-9), but I do like Honey I Miss You (But My Aim is Getting Better). Dr Russell Moseley University of Warwick

 More than any genre, country music loves word-play and puns. My favourites are Don't Leave Without Taking Your Silver, You've Left It Right Here in My Hair and She Got the Goldmine, I Got the Shaft. Ian McGhee Glasgow